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rsstack··on Policy as Code vs. Policy as Graph Comparison
That's what Oso do: https://docs.osohq.com/guides/policies.html
rsstack··on 100K Context Windows
Based on what do you think it's comparable to GPT-3.5 and not to 4? Did we see a lot of public performance?
rsstack··on LLaVA: Large Language and Vision Assistant
I chose the example image with a man in a yellow shirt doing something next to a yellow car, with a yellow taxi driving in the background. I replaced the example question with my own:

Q: How many cars are in the picture?

A: There is a single car visible in the image.

Q: Is that true?

A: Yes, there is only one car visible in the image.

Q: How many yellow objects are in the image?

A: There are two yellow objects in the image.

Q: What are they?

A: One of the yellow objects is a man holding onto a clothesline while standing on a car. The other yellow object is a suitcase on the same car.

Every single answer was wrong.

rsstack··on A 1.5GB string
Coincidence :) I know him in real life and he has used that nickname for a decade+.
rsstack··on Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor
$29/mo is more than my ChatGPT Plus subscription, which does include GPT-4 :)
rsstack··on Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor
"somebody"
rsstack··on Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor
I love the workflow! This is how I'm writing articles now with ChatGPT's GPT-4, just with less copy-pasting and all in one place, and fewer Markdown problems.

The two things I'm missing, or didn't find how to use:

1. GPT-4 :) I know the API isn't public yet, but the reasoning abilities of GPT-4 are so much better that I'm having a hard time arguing with GPT-3.

2. I have a long prompt I give to GPT-4 (context on our product, writing style guidelines, text examples for style, words to avoid, etc.). It's about two pages long, in addition to the request for the specific article or paragraph I'm writing. How should I incorporate that into Type's UI?

3. How do I import/export a whole article, or paragraphs, as Markdown? EDIT: Copy-paste. Lol, simpler than I expected.

rsstack··on 2001: A Space Odyssey
On 2001:

> Originally, Kubrick and Clarke had planned to develop a 2001 novel first, free of the constraints of film, and then write the screenplay. They planned the writing credits to be "Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, based on a novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick" to reflect their preeminence in their respective fields.[31] In practice, the screenplay developed in parallel with the novel, with only some elements being common to both.

> In the end, Clarke and Kubrick wrote parts of the novel and screenplay simultaneously, with the film version being released before the book version was published. Clarke opted for clearer explanations of the mysterious monolith and Star Gate in the novel; Kubrick made the film more cryptic by minimising dialogue and explanation.

However, 2010 was only a novel and later made in to a film, with the producer consulting with Clarke over email (in 1983).

rsstack··on 2001: A Space Odyssey
I also recommend the three books of A Time Odyssey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_Odyssey
rsstack··on 2001: A Space Odyssey
As others noted, there's a sequel film 2010. Both 2001 and 2010 are also novelized, and there are five additional books: 2061 and 3001 are "far in the future" sequels following some of the same characters (and the monoliths).

There are also three other novels under "A Time Odyssey". Separate story but with similarities <spoiler>mysterious outsiders and fascinating human-made AIs</spoiler.

rsstack··on SBF’s legal defense is being funded with Alameda money he gave his father
This isn't an income or gains tax. Not all taxes are about money gained. For example, sales tax when you pay $100 isn't negative $8, it's $8.

When gifting large amounts of money, the IRS gets more money on top (so, if you're super rich, don't gift ALL off your money, and leave some aside for tax season).

rsstack··on SBF’s legal defense is being funded with Alameda money he gave his father
You need to report a gift over $14k but you don't owe until much higher limits. Same as how people who make very little money have to report income even if it's lower than the lowest tax bracket.

Also, as a reminder, the gifter pays the tax and not the person who received the gift. If someone gifts you an illiquid asset, you aren't forced to go into debt to pay a tax. But the gifter has to figure things out on their end.

rsstack··on Thoughts on Svelte
We don't use {#await because it has several issues. We use this utility to access promises in Svelte components, converting promises to stores:

    export type PromiseState<T> =
        | { status: 'loading'; value?: undefined; error?: undefined }
        | { status: 'resolved'; value: T; error?: undefined }
        | { status: 'rejected'; value?: undefined; error: Error };
    
    export function fromPromise<T>(promise: Promise<T>): Readable<PromiseState<T>> {
        return readable<PromiseState<T>>({ status: 'loading' }, (set) => {
            void promise
                .then((value) => set({ status: 'resolved', value }))
                .catch((error) => set({ status: 'rejected', error }));
        });
    }
rsstack··on GitHub issue - resolved
Great question: Google's homepage revenue is directly 1:1 matches to its uptime. Its user retention is also loosely tied to its uptime, as the value is mostly a replaceable commodity (is Bing worse? sure, but it has results). This leads to the organization investing huge amounts of time and money in ensuring its uptime. I can recall a single outage in the past several years.

On the other hand, GitHub's revenue is mostly monthly/annual licensing and their have great stickiness as it's not trivial to migrate to an equivalent service provider (excluding minor projects who only use a couple of features). They can increase profits through feature development and cost saving, a lot more than through uptime. Is there a limit to this? Of course.

rsstack··on Ask HN: AWS account suspended, able to access via keys with no console signin
3-2-1 rule for backups: 3 copies, 2 different physical mediums on the same site (if you're on AWS, they handle that for you), 1 off-site (NOT AWS). This is the minimum for a data backup to count as "backup", not the maximum.

Backup your AWS data, backup your Google data (Gmail, Drive, and GCP), backup your on-prem data (to the cloud, or a different building), etc.

rsstack··on Amazon warns employees not to share confidential information with ChatGPT
That's always true. Dropbox employees may be browsing through customer files on their lunch break. Microsoft employees may be giggling about Microsoft 365 email contents. Both Dropbox and Microsoft are very well trusted, despite having access to confidential information, due to contracts & audits & "fame / popularity" (yes!) & long enough track record with no business-interesting scandals.
rsstack··on Amazon warns employees not to share confidential information with ChatGPT
It's a bit hidden, but from the Terms of Service: "You can opt out of having Content used for improvement by contacting support@openai.com with your organization ID."
rsstack··on Google stock tumbles 8% after its Bard AI ad shows inaccurate answer
> Bard wrote that the telescope took the very first pictures of a planet outside our solar system. In fact, the first pictures of these "exoplanets" were taken by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, according to NASA records.

Sure, it's inaccurate, but it isn't worse than Google's current "featured snippets" that are so often bullshit and get meme'd.

Searching right now for "who took the first photograph of an exoplanet" gives back "NASA's James Webb Space Telescope", with a reference article about the first exoplanet photograph _by_ JWST instead of the first one ever.

rsstack··on Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
Wow, this might fit our needs much better! Thanks!
rsstack··on Meilisearch 1.0 – Open-source search engine built in Rust
Is there a way to run it in WASM, to get something like Lunr[1]? We prefer to do our (small-index, <2MB) search client-side for a bunch of reasons, currently using Lunr.js, but it's a bit annoying and the typeahead search is something I improvised and not really official.

[1] https://lunrjs.com/

rsstack··on Netlify acquires Gatsby
First, I appreciate your response (and overall your life work - we're Svelte.js users, about 60% of our source code is in Svelte, and we have a couple of non-critical-path SvelteKit apps).

While Vercel's intentions are good, and your personal intentions are beyond reproach, this strategy all but ensures eventual vendor lock-in without explicitly saying so. Vercel's compatibility will increase over time and other vendors will have best-effort implementations of certain features, but never the complete feature matrix. The industry (esp. medium/large companies) will quickly pick on the relation of "Vercel is needed for ease of mind when using SvelteKit in production", as I've heard from many companies considering/using Next.js. Do people use Next.js without Vercel? Yes. Do companies evaluating Next.js consider it vendor-locked? If they're experienced, yes.

rsstack··on Jamie: AI assistant that creates meeting summaries
There are dozens of these tools, probably 5+ that are popular enough to be regarded as "stable" (give or take acquisitions). Products in saturated areas should either show price prominently to save time on comparisons, or explain well why they're unique (not fluff "we cool kidz", "our product has _good_ quality recognition", etc.).
rsstack··on Netlify acquires Gatsby
That's how they all worked before being acquired. SK is Vercel now too and we don't know yet how it'll change over time.
rsstack··on Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative
Would love this self-hosted.

The license says "All content that resides under any "ee/" directory of this repository, if such directories exists, are licensed under the license defined in "ee/LICENSE".", but there's no folder named ee? What is this referring to?

rsstack··on Launch HN: Needl (YC S22) – Simple search across all your apps
I just emailed you for help. When trying to self-serve, I immediately got blocked by automated corporate policies :)
rsstack··on Launch HN: Needl (YC S22) – Simple search across all your apps
Love the concept. I wish there were a way to add custom integrations for in-house software we use or uncommon systems we use. It would work better if these things were configured at the organization-level and not user-level (i.e. IT connecting Confluence to Needl instead of individual users requesting access one-by-one).

Typo on the pricing page: "and soon to be may others", I assume meant "many".

Would love to try but my daily driver is a Linux machine. I just don't spend enough hours a week on my Macbook for it to be relevant right now. Edit: I'll try the Chrome extension.

Edit: The hover for "Free for 14 days" in the pricing page is black-on-black unless you hover exactly on the text. Webflow hover styling is awful, happens to me often too :)

rsstack··on Wizards of the Coast Releases SRD Under Creative Commons License (CC-BY-4.0)
Note that the license is CC-BY-4.0, not -SA. Doesn't change anything material in what you wrote, just FYI.
rsstack··on LastPass breach gets worse
There are apps for mobile devices, some sync with a GitHub repository (which you should make private): https://www.passwordstore.org/#:~:text=password%20(OTP)%20to...

The contents of the GitHub repo are of course encrypted with your own key, which you need to manually sync to your other devices.

rsstack··on GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support
Almost a decade ago, I was part of a 10 person team (that was growing) and while there was consensus around transition to Git, it kept getting pushed back. I eventually forced the issue by changing the deployment job in Jenkins for one of the main projects to deploy from Git instead of SVN.

I had to give several talks to existing and new employees about how Git works and how to use it. I was also that #1597 guy (https://xkcd.com/1597/). Back then most hires didn't work with Git before joining us, today of course it's different. Over time, all projects moved to Git as whenever someone was working on two projects, one Git and one SVN, they would ask "why is this still on SVN?" and soon it would be on Git.

rsstack··on Salesforce, but for Dating
Not 100% what you describe, but functionally the same: https://github.com/monicahq/monica
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